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Years ago I did sudo bash -c 'echo ":: fonts.googleapis.com" >> /etc/hosts' sudo bash -c 'echo "0.0.0.0 fonts.googleapis.com" >> /etc/hosts' and I haven't looked back.
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> we're in a country with better privacy laws Speaking as a European: I think this is a very important topic for us. I don't think Americans and American companies understand how little trust rest of us have for the American government. Working with a company that is not subject to the whims of the American government is a huge privacy win. If a company pitches me a product, they start 1 points ahead if they are base…
I always had the suspicion that the (seemingly higher) interest in privacy/FOSS in Europeans is fueled partly by anti-Americanism. In America, even if you don't trust the government, at least it's your government, so I don't feel like that plays as big a role, and any interest in privacy/FOSS (like mine) is untempered by the anxiety of an alien government's interference. :p Regardless, I love how much more Europeans…
Of course it is. After American Wars in the Middle East killed and displaced millions, there is good reason to be wary of Americans and the American government.
This is exactly what a FBI/CIA/GCHQ/FSB front company would say. They love to set up fronts in good-reputation countries, like Switzerland, or Slovenia in this case.
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My understanding of privacy international privacy stuff is if a European gov wants to spy on their own citizens, but the law prevents them, they phone up the USA and have the USA do the spying(hacking?) and get the data from them. European countries do the same for USA gov on US citizens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes?wprov=sfti1 In the US at least, any spying is illegal when both parties are within the US and the packets never leave the US.
Noone? Why am I not surprised?
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Breaks lots of icons and such right? I disabled fonts for like a day with Ublock Origin but it was too inconvenient
I have not noticed any breakage though it may well happen. But pages are fast to load, I get a consistent chosen font across all sites and my privacy (at least for font loading) is respected.
If you didn't have that font, you couldn't figure out the election results without clicking through to each state's page to see the results.
† It's quite nice. If memory serves me correctly, the Times even open-sourced it.
Yeah, sure.
Or maybe just host your own fonts. 350KB traffic per unique visitor per month isn't going to kill your bill unless you serve millions of visitors a day.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes?wprov=sfti1 In the US at least, any spying is illegal when both parties are within the US and the packets never leave the US.
And, who ever got executed for spying domestically? Who ever got a prison sentence in line with the rough prison sentences the US happily gives out for much lesser offenses? Wo ever got so much as a bad performance review? Noone? Why am I not surprised?
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My understanding of privacy international privacy stuff is if a European gov wants to spy on their own citizens, but the law prevents them, they phone up the USA and have the USA do the spying(hacking?) and get the data from them. European countries do the same for USA gov on US citizens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes?wprov=sfti1 In the US at least, any spying is illegal when both parties are within the US and the packets never leave the US.
These laws are a formality and have no teeth.
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you won't believe this, but as the end user you can solve this in your life once and for all, and also improve your life! something rare for online annoyances nowadays. any decent browser, i mostly use firefox, have a checkbox in the font screen that prevents sites from changing the page font. i set all sites to user Ubuntu Mono. always. all the time. everywhere. the only downside are sites that use winding-like font…
Upside: Consistency. Downside: Consistency.
This is a great project, but I learned to use a system font stack[0] instead to address latency issues on my sites. I run an e-commerce site and every millisecond in rendering time is potentially a lost sale. It needs to be fast, especially for those on 3G (or 2G?) connections. [0] https://systemfontstack.com/
I have a question about system fonts. Whenever I declare system fonts I always use: `serif`, `sans-serif`, or `monospaced` rather than the actual fonts like: ``` font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, avenir next, avenir, segoe ui, helvetica neue, helvetica, Cantarell, Ubuntu, roboto, noto, arial, sans-serif; ``` Am I doing it wrong by declaring it just like `font-family: sans-serif`?